Radical 151 or radical bean (豆部) meaning "bean" is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals. It is one of 20 which are composed of 7 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 68 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
豆 is also the 152nd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.
Evolution
Derived characters
Sinogram
As an independent sinogram 豆 is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. Specifically it is a third grade kanji.
References
Further reading
- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
External links
- Unihan Database - U 8C46
